HB and Ty Tessman Get 2nd at the NEO Race!

Wed, 18th April 2012

Ty competed at the Neo '12 race in Telford, UK April 6-10, this
race is one of the biggest races of the year, it is likened to an
indoor 1/8 offroad worlds, with all of the top drivers in the world
in attendance. Day one of qualifying held the first 3 of 5 rounds
of qualifying, Ty had a very good day taking the top qualifying
position in round 1, in round 2 Ty qualified 2nd overall and then
took TQ in round 3, this gave him overall TQ for Day 1.

Day two of qualifying, we used the last 2 qualifiers to try some
setup changes which did not work as well as we had thought they
would, Ty ended up qualifying second overall and started on the
pole in the B semi. Ty's semi went very well, he was able to take
the win moving him into the final but his semi time put him 2nd on
the grid for the 45 minute final. In the final things went fairly
well, in the first 9 minutes Ty managed to get by Jared to take the
lead, Ty came into pit at 9 minutes giving the lead back to Jared
which he held until his pit stop at 12 minutes. The 2 drivers
pulled away from the rest of the field and battled back and forth,
but with Jared doing one less pitstop, Ty was unable to regain the
lead, and finished 2nd. All in all it was a good performance by Ty.
Jesse Robbers also did well, getting into the A Final and finishing
12th overall.